Multiple levels of affinity-dependent DNA discrimination in Cre-LoxP recombination

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 40, 2006, Pages 12216-12226

  Gelato, Kathy A ^a   Martin, Shelley S ^a   Wong, Scott ^a   Baldwin, Enoch P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING INTERACTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; REACTION PATHWAY;

CONFORMATIONS; ENZYMES; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HYDROGEN BONDS; REACTION KINETICS;

DNA;

ARGININE; CRE RECOMBINASE; CYSTEINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HYDROGEN BOND; LOXP SITE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGININE; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INTEGRASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33749527913     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi0605235     Document Type: Article

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